Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....

Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...

Oral history interview with Robert Key, conducted October 25, 1977 by Robert Friedman. Mr. Key was a musician. He was born in Louisville but really launched his career in Chicago before touring as a singer. In this interview, he discusses his...

An amateur boxing match in the gym at the Presbyterian Community Center located at 731 Hancock St. in Louisville, Ky. A boxing ring is set up in the middle of the gym and two young shirtless African American boys are inside the ring wearing boxing...

A Sunday School group made up of African American children, along with one adult African American woman and four white adults (three women and one man) standing in front of the Presbyterian Colored Mission located on Preston St. in Louisville, Ky....

A crowd of people, mostly African American children, attend Sunday school in a classroom containing a row of chairs. An African American man in a suit stands by a podium and may be the minister. Two white women and a boy stand or play at the piano...

Copy photograph of an original by Hesse of African American children on a playground, probably at Hope Mission (later the Presbyterian Colored Mission) on Hancock Street in the Smoketown-Jackson neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. A group of...

An African American child sewing and an image of a woman teaching African American children how to sew. A note on the invoice saying, "1 lot of copies of old photos," indicates that this photograph is a reproduction of two other photographs,...

An African American man sits on a wooden bench and uses a hammer on the sole of a boot supported on a metal pole. He wears a work apron over his knee-length pants and button-up shirt with tie. Tongs, shoehorns, and more shoes wait on the bench next...

A group of African American women participate in a sewing class. Along one side of the room the women work at sewing machines which are built into desks. In the middle of the room long tables are placed end to end and women work on laying out...

Two mules in harness pull a young man on a seed drill on a farm. A little dog runs along a stream. In the middle ground there is a small stone outbuilding with two stars on it. In the background are a couple of homes and outbuildings.

This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. The images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: turkey approaching boy wielding stick (with hoop and hat on the...

Brick building with a center tower and two chimneys on the ends. Three archways in the front and two, bricked-in archways on the right side. The building is surrounded by overgrown grass. Title: 7007 - John Brown's Fort, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.,...

431 items by pioneering woman photographer Kate Matthews, of Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Best known for her photographs depicting characters in the Little Colonel series of children's books written by her friend and neighbor Annie Fellows Johnston,...

Hattie Cochran and Annie Fellows Johnston pose with the book, "The Little Colonel at Boarding School" (1903). They are sitting on a small wood settee in front of a bookcase by a window. Hattie, the real-life person upon whom Annie Fellows Johnston...

Annie Fellows Johnston and Hattie Cochran pose under trees on the driveway at The Beeches, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. They are holding hands and Mrs. Johnston holds a folded parasol in her other hand. Hattie is the real-life person upon...

Annie Fellows Johnston and Hattie Cochran pose under trees on the driveway at The Beeches, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Mrs. Johnston holds an open parasol over her right shoulder. Hattie is the real-life person upon whom Annie Fellows...

A Franklin automobile is shown with four men in it. The top is down for the picture, but the road appears icy and a little bit of snow appears at the base of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the side of the Louisville Free Public Library at 301...